Quick and Easy MASS MAKING Junk Journal Covers - Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In this tutorial I demonstrate a quick and easy process of making lots of Junk Journal covers at once. Enjoy!
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My wife loves loves your videos has she is recovering from 3 bypass surgery thank God it makes the time go's fast bless you
Thank you 🙏 I wish your wife a complete recovery so she can get back to life and crafting ❤️
Natasha, you are my FAVORITE junk journal creator!! I watch and rewatch your videos! I love your no nonsense approach, but sprinkled with occasional humor. Thank you for sharing with us!
Thank you so very much :)
I always get so excited when I see you have put a new video up! I learn so much from you. My creativity is always sparked from something you are sharing. Have a blessed week 💖
EXACTLY…me too!🤗
Same here! I usually drop what I'm doing and do what she's doing--lol. Has gotten me into some pickles now and again (this past Thanksgiving, her mini-junk journal tutorial sparked me to do my entire Christmas tree in mini's and other junk journal pieces and parts--'twas a hoot!)
Thanks Natasa! I recently commented I'm not so heavily into JJ-ing lately yet love to watch each and every one of your videos nevertheless...well, this tutorial is THE one that will get me going again. I can feel all the stuff in closets and drawers stirring to be crafted into journal covers. Oodles of them. Off to craft then!
Oh I'm so glad that you feel inspired again!!! Thank you so very much for your generosity, I really appreciate it!!!
This is an extremely helpful and informative video tutorial. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your expertise.
Hi Natasha, I have only started junk journaling in the last year but I am like Cheryl and get excited whenever you put up a new video. So much information and you just seem to get the jj juices flowing. I just made a journal for a friend and am just finishing up the embellishing. It seems every time I am almost to the end of a journal the next one pops up in my mind. I am having so much fun making them. Love this video with all the simple yet effective covers. I have been saving this type of paper and now I know why. Thanks so much for the tutorials and ideas.
Good for you for having fun and enjoying your jujo adventures--it's kind of like being a kid in a toy store that's giving away free candy--there's SO many things to want to do and have and try 🤗
What an excellent tip to use your hair straightener that way. This video is exactly what I needed, thank you.
You are so talented and thank you for sharing your beautiful creations with us. When I go thrifting, I look for old photo ablums and repurpose them into junk journals. Natasa your creations are absolutely stunning.
Love the simplicity 💚 I think less is more, sometimes.
I enjoy watching how you embrace when things don’t always turn out as planned and use it as an opportunity to learn and try something new.
I think, making mistakes is sometimes what we need to push us out of our comfort zone.
Thanks for sharing 💚
Darlene here. Thanks for this video. I always enjoy your presentations so much. And I always get something out of each one. Really like the covers with spines.
I am working on a journal that I used carpet/wallpaper samples on. I’m not happy with it but won’t throw it out because I can salvage with another idea. And you did exactly what I would have done one the one with those bent back pieces.
omg that sweet face on your YT pic 🐾🥰 sooooo cute!
That is my kitty Pearl
You’re such a great teacher, very thorough and detailed and make it so easy to follow you. You inspire me. I look forward to your videos so much. Thank you.
You are so amazing and talented, Natasha!!!! I love this tutorial and it's perfect timing because I just purchased a bunch of fabrics from a thrift store with the intent to make book covers but didn't know how to go about it. You saved the day!!!! I have hoarded...I mean "collected" 😉 so many different boxes that I know would make perfect journals. I can't seem to throw them out when I imagine what I could make from them!!! Lol! I look at packaging soooo differently now! You explained your process so well and watching you fix any mishaps is very creative. I absolutely love the trifold covers!!! With all this fabrics I've just bought I am definitely making a few trifold covers. I only wish my sewing lines were as straight as yours are!!! 😫 I've got to keep practicing with my new machine. Thank you soooo much for this tutorial. I just love your content. Keep the creative juices flowing!!! You inspire me! 💗😊
lol--don't you look at EVERYTHING differently now? Junk mail, magazines, newspapers, paper rolls, old clothes, books, bags...garbage (can't tell you how many things I've thrown away then fished out of the bin bc I figured out some way to use it 😳 😂🤣😂
@@TheCrabbyCrafterlol Yes!!! I am running out of places to hide my "treasures" and reasons to tell my husband why I'm holding onto empty pasta boxes and trust me...I have ALOT!!! I'm Italian!!!! 🤷🏻♀️ #craftersstruggles
I love watching you I get such great ideas from you and I never give up always fix the mistakes I make. Natasha you are the best instructor with the greatest ideas. Thank You.
You are so innovative! I think my favorites are definitely your Happy Accidents. Thank you for sharing these beautiful ideas.
As always I love your video. Your idea is wonderful and it comes at just the right time for me. Like you I loved the problem-solving aspect of junk journaling. It was the part of being a watercolor artist I love the most to. I was blessed by a friend who gave me a box full of upholstery fabric which I did not have. I plan to make a number of Travelers notebooks to sell in a local shop for seniors. We have a number of tourists here and this is right in Old Town Albuquerque. I will make the journals in a way that they can record their travels and have places to keep their little bits and Bobs of receipts and brochures and business cards along with place to put pictures that they may take. I love your work it is always so elegant and beautiful thank you thank you for sharing your talent with us
Great tutorial, thank you. Your tip to not cut off excess fabric until finished sewing is so helpful.
I just love your covers! NO, I don't throw them away but sometimes the glue has seeped through in an area that can't be camouflaged. I found I can now use the sheerest of fabrics with Fliselina or heatnbond. I iron it on to my fabric, peel and iron it on a high heat to a sheet of rice paper. Afterwards you can use any glue to attach it to your backing. I make ten at a time so they are always ready at hand. I hope that helps. I really appreciated all your videos Natasa, your creative projects, time and peaceful voice.
Your hair straightener idea is brilliant. Thank you!
Love these covers! Thank you for showing the process and the fixes. You are so genuine and that’s why I love your videos.
I have been inclined to throw things out when there is a mistake but I’ll try to change my mindset to refer to them as a happy accident!
PS - And your mastery of English language vocabulary is amazing!! Many native English-speaking people do not use the extensive vocabulary that you do!
Oh dear! See them not as mistakes but challenges (or collage fodder!) How can it be saved? 99% of things can be saved by adding a few things here and there, if possible, taking a few things out--certainly they can become parts for something else when you tear 'em up--lol. Perhaps start a project of just cast-offs (like the Island of Broken Toys in Rudolph). Some of the things I disliked the most at first end up being favorites (over time). Nothing's ever ruined forever/garbage 😉
When I saw you pull out the score tape I was almost about to question what happened within the short time period but then you explained and it was chill.
Anyways great video very informative I’ll definitely try it soon
yes I am with you in the exitement of solving problems and making accidents into an art opportunities
I love how creative you are when you spot a mistake in your journal and you simply create something more beautiful when you correct it!!
What can I say….. I love everything you do………!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
I will make these to gift kids at school. I work in school so this will definitely be a nice gift to give them and same time enjoy doing craft.
Again…YOUR WORK IS EXQUISITE!!! Love watching…get so inspired…TY Natasha!!! Book covers here I come !!!✂️📖📜🏷
Your taste in colors and color combinations is really exquisite.. I learn sooooo much from you. I’ve been making journals for myself and all the girls in the family and now I’m making a big one for my husband to store his art work .. he loves to paint as do I . I always use fabric , first because I have loads of it and second because it’s quite sturdy . What I do is use clips to hold the fabric properly over the cover.. run it through my sewing machine then I line it on the inside with a matching fabric ans sew everything again like a second inner stitching . I also add pockets on the lining before or after the sewing . I use decorative stitches so it looks intentional and artistic . I don’t know if I can add photos here as I would really love to show you😊 Thank you Natasha for being you and for all the help you are offering 🙏🏼you are absolutely wonderful 🌹💐🌹
Love watching all your videos! You are so inspirational! Thank you!
I love watching your videos when you explain several ways of doing things. Thank you so much for these ideas! I always struggle with concerts and these are so simple and beautiful.
Thanks for the instructions and inspiration for these. Always enjoy watching you and looking forward to learning more. Thank you so much.
You make everything look so easy. All these covers are so pretty!! I always feel like I have to cover the inside too and that’s where I mess up so I am going to try it your way and stencil if needed or add a pretty pocket! Love that you cut straight on the outside (no tucking! Haven’t mastered those corners yet!) or use the pinking shears! Definitely have to try that! Thanks Natasha! Always inspiring! ❤️
The enjoyment I get from the process is just as important as the finished object, so the issues just add to the fun. There very little that’s broken beyond fixing and what is still teaches you or refines your skill, so I’m with you - problems are opportunities for creativity. Love your work 😀
You are not over explaining. I need those tips. I learn tips from that and I've been doing this for years
😍oh wow...love them all but my favorite is the orange one with the pen pocket in the front. From now on I wont be cutting of the edges of package material like I've been doing as prep work (edge cut off and measurement written on inside), never thought about folding it over, great idea 💡 Thank you 🙏! You are a great teacher and inspiration!!!
So nice listening to you, never get tired . I can listen to you for hours, and I get to learn a lot from you. Love from India 🇮🇳 . Really a good teacher
Thank you so much 😀
Your welcome, carry the good work. Hope u get a lot of subscribers
I love all the projects you share with viewers. They are useful and professional looking. I have boxes and boxes of beautiful scrapbook paper that I'm not sure how to use and will not use it all in my lifetime.
I love your videos! Thankyou😊I actually use glue stick and iron the fabric and it sets it a bit, I also use glue stick in this way when making fabric tags or fabric collage etc.
Such a great tutorial. Now I see how easy it is. And good that you tell and show what can go wrong en how to fix it. Thx you for sharing. Greetz from Holland
I love the pocket on the orange journal. It reminds me of an audio cassette!
Natasha: you are a genius at crafting! Every single one is wonderful. And I love your thinking of recycling. And you explain it so easily to your listeners. Enjoy your videos. Thank you. Carol from California
I thought the pen pocket looked like a cassette tape...inspired. Thank you 😊
Well, I think I need to give my old sewing machine a new job. If I can still find out how to thread the yarn🤷🏻♀️
4 weeks ago I didn’t even know about scrapbooking, altered books, working with junk journals. But until today -due to sleepless nights- I have watched many (too many) of your (and others) videos. I like yours best because your voice and style of explaining and use of „normal“ stuff and making something beautiful out of it, is so refreshing and calming at the same time.
I have „made“ an altered book of an old book I had lying around and I used what I had in the house. Not much actually, being an absolute beginner. Scissors, glue (stick) some stamps and stamping pads, some extra magazine pages and 2 very cheap (dollar tree-style paper collections with stickers and stuff)
I have finished for today since tomorrow I am going to see if I can improve it and go out to buy some extra bits and pieces. As of now I am quite happy.
Great idea for the journal covers. Appreciate the time to teach us not only how to make them but also the fixes for errors along the way. Be safe, be well & TYFS
All so clever - and the ones where you had to 'correct' something ended up even better! 😍
Love this idea, Thanks for sharing. I would be really interested in how you attach the signatures together and attach to the covers. 🥰xxx
I love your videos, you are such a good video maker and instructor!!!Thank you for sharing your ideas!
Endless possibilities! Hugs and blessings, 🤗❤️🇨🇦
Savršeno Nataša! Kao i uvijek. Nema te greške koju ti ne možeš popraviti.
Amazing video. Love all your covers and creativity! Sparks my imagination! Thanks for sharing! Have a great week!
Your YT pic here made me laugh out loud 😂🤣😂
Natasa, great video this morning! Thank you for sharing! I have so many cereal boxes and dog treat boxes ready to go. PLUS, I have a ton of fabric! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity! You are such an inspiration to ALL of your followers! You are an awesome lady! Hugs, Mary
Oh! Another great one. I love the way you use all those fabrics. They are all beautiful!!
I love mass making videos. Please do more of these. Love your channel. ❤
Awesome! So many ideas, tips, and fixes! Thanks so much for sharing your inspiration!
Hi Natasha, Thank you for all you do! I've made my first 2 journals. I'll brag and tell you they came out beautiful. I love them so much I am not sure I can sell or give them away. Now, watching this tutorial you have helped me to resolve an issue I was simply overthinking... You amaze me! Your art is so beautiful and I've learned in leaps and bounds from you alone. Sandra USA
RE: The beige embroidered version: It certainly turned out to be a beautiful change of course. Good reason to be happy with the outcome on this and all the others. You do such lovely work - such an inspiration.
Thank you so much for this awesome video. I have quite a few fabric swatches that I just bought recently for a dollar each and have been in the process of pulling them apart. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the materials until now. Your tutorial has inspired me to make these lovely covers and it will keep me busy for awhile. Thank you again I love your style and elegance you bring to your craft.
I did enjoy it, and you always come up with the greatest ideas. Thanks for sharing them.
Thank you for sharing exactly how to do this with the fabric on a cover. It was very helpful knowing about the glue and how to hold the book when sewing. Love your video inspiration. Catherine
Thank you for this tutorial. I usually use glue stick to hold my fabric or paper in place if I am going to sew around it. It usually works pretty good for me. I love all your covers. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. I am always inspired by your tutorials.
Such an inspiration! Thank you Natasha for all of the tutorials you give us!
The journal you showed that was a gift to demonstrate the double sided tape oil seeping through - I actually thought those lines were part of the decoration! I definitely appreciate the word of caution because it's important to know so I can avoid it - but at least in this case, I feel that it really added to the journal! =)
Thank you for your inspiration. I have been using more upcycled materials in my books since I started watching your channel. I’m super excited to do a video on using packaging materials in journals on my channel very soon. Thank you again for your inspiration. I hope you have a wonderful day.
I just could not stop watching your video! Such neat work and amazing ideas! Thanks a lot for sharing. 🫶
Those journal covers are amazing! I love how you figure out ways to correct what goes wrong, and you give it a wow result. Thanks for sharing.
Very, very nice! You always inspire me in one way or another, Natasa!
And I do try and salvage things when something goes wrong. Pockets, belly bands, collage pieces, stickers, buttons, bows, lace etc are just some of the things I use to fix a boo-boo...lol
Happy Spring! 🐰
Hugs dear crafty friend 💕 Suzy
Like your videos so much and this was just what I needed. So many great ideas. Thank you.
You are absolutely wonderful with your videos! The information and your demonstration of concepts and tips are so clearly explained! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
These are absolutely gorgeous. I have so much fabric and didn’t know what to do with it but didn’t want to throw it away. now I know what to do with it, thanks to you. Thanks so much for sharing! 💕
Wow they are all gorgeous! I can’t pick a favorite! Thank you for sharing ❤️❤️❤️😊
Hello Natasha, enjoyed watching you make some journal covers, love the book plates with the fabric behind them. Thanks for sharing
So cool your solution to the flap you had to cut off wow! Thanks for sharing your process. It’s so helpful. Appreciate the cover decoration and closure ideas.
Beautiful pic of your beastlie 🐾 They're such great lil' helpers in the craft room!
Hi. So glad to see this video. I'm so new to this and love crafting. Your videos are awesome. Thank you so much.
1:22 in and I've already given you a LIKE!! It's going to be a great video!!!!! FULLL of important info!! Thank you Natasha!! I will be referring to this one many many times.
You make the best tutorials! Sometimes mistakes are happy accidents and ,then, sometimes they need correcing. I love watching you problem solve. You are inspiring. Thank you!
Oh my butterflies!!! You are so inspiring to me and I'm so very thankful that I have found your tutorials.
Thank you for the clear instructions and for keeping it simple for beginners like myself. 👍 ❤
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I’ve often wondered how to use fabric as a journal cover. Your instructions simplified the process and does not seem as intimidating anymore! Additionally, I also appreciate the different closure ideas and more. I watch many of your videos. You are so inspiring and I love the fact that you are so meticulous in your work. Grazie Natasha❤
SO easy & CLEVER, as always. LOVE IT! :)
Since you don't prefer to use 'gray interior' cereal boxes... here's an idea that you or someone else may like, so they don't go to waste. Besides being an Analog Collage Artist, I also do and LOOOOVE 'Gel Plate Printing' to use in some of my big collages, zines, and so forth. Those gray box interiors could be STUNNING after being gel-printed on, making sure to use only acryllic paint (no inks). Talk about a STUNNING embellishment, especially if you use some metallic acryllic paints on the gel plate. Incorporating stencils for specific designs and sometimes I use 2-4 layers of stenciling with various colors for abstract effects.
Just an idea for y'all! LOL
Natasa you are one of a few people that surprise me with your ideas. Your designs are original and I won't find them anywhere else. You inspire me to take that extra step so my journal is unique to my imagination. Thank you so muxh for sharing. 🙂❤
I just want to thank you for all you do for your subscribers, you have great ideas and help me alot. Terry/NM
I'm so glad, thank you :)
LOL! I love that you’re using a hair straightener for an iron! I am definitely going to use your ingenuity!
Love them ALL! I always learn something new when I watch your videos, so thank you.
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching :)
BRILLIANT This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for ! I was in search of how to make a journal like the one you made with the two button closure! You can't see me, but I am doing the happy dance while sewing and watching ! Thank you!
Amazing assortment of covers, all beautiful!
Beautiful yet simple covers. They look sophisticated and fun.
You always have me laughing because you are so funny, naturally! Plus so creative and brilliant! I’m watching your tutorials in 2022 rather than the Johnny Depp/Amber Herd trial. Other than when Depp is laughing about a hilarious testimony, this is more interesting and educational. That pen pocket on the front of the one journal, reminds me of an old cassette tape. I love it, it has inspired me to make a music journal!
I watch so many people that do junk journaling. Bar none you give me more inspiration than any of them put together. I am not saying they are bad, I am just saying thank you because I am journaling because of you. The project I am doing now is for my grandchildren for Christmas. Thank you for the blessing that you have gave me.
I make my covers with boxes as well! I fold the edges back too, but then I fill in with extra box pieces so I don't get ridges. It can also be filled with batting to make a soft center. I love the inside of some of these boxes, they are surprisingly gorgeous! It may take some sealer or gel medium to bring out the texture but its well worth the time. Lots of ideas here!!
You are an amazing artist !!!
Thankyou for these videos 😀
Natasa, this video couldn't have come at a better time! I just happen to be going through my latest collection of cereal boxes and packaging to get ready to start making covers! I love all your covers and your solutions to problems that pop up unexpectedly. Happy accidents! I'm tagging this video in my "Must Do" Playlist. You must have an incredible inventory of stash stuff! I'm jealous!☺🥰❤
Thank you for making such accessible crafting/junk journal ideas!! Also, I absolutely love the hair straightener for ironing!
There is no limit to your imagination…. you have given me a bundle of ideas… thank you so much for this tutorial. ❤️
Today, I've enjoyed your video very much. I started yesterday making junk journal covers. Nine years ago, I'd been in a hospital for two and a half months due to a terrible car accident. I'm going to fill each of my junk journals with fabulous and entertaining things to make, do, read, learn, practice, and remember. If I ever have to go back to a hospital, I'll ask for one of my junk journals to be allowed to accompany me.
Very nice. Wonderful ideas you have and thank you for sharing your ideas and talent. Hugs 🤗 from DarvaDee in North Carolina USA 🇺🇸
Fabulous ideas and thank you for showing exactly what to do and what to bear in mind as the journal cover builds. I'm all fired up to make myself a large journal - memory book for last year.
Your favourite one is definitely mine too! Followed by that huge black one with reddish flowers on. And I really like the one you added braid trim to as well.
I have a bespoke curtain shop near me. They have all those types of fabrics. You can just buy the fabrics if you want to, but that fabric is expensive!!!
They get new fabrics in all the time, and they make mini curtain panels, roughly 1 metre squared, to hang in the window. No more than a week and they change out the window display, always new fabrics coming in, or maybe one of the sample panels in the window has all sold out on the fabric roll inside.
They put all those 1metre² panels in a big basket, for £1 each! They are all lined with quality sheen cotton, may have either standard heading tape or ring top tape or tab tops sewn in. They are literally a proper professionally stitched curtain, hemmed, edged properly etc. I get loads of them! It can take me an hour to go through the basket in the shop! it's like one of those big display cages that are normally used for putting footballs in, in a sports shop! Huge!
When I get them home and unpick them, iron out the hems and folds etc, they are over a metre² in size.
And remember I'm getting the cotton linings as well as the outer textile fabrics! For £1 a curtain!!! 😲
Fabric or papers.... I can't help myself hoarding them! 😂
But I have a huge crafting cupboard so they're very tidy! 😁
I loved watching you make these, your sewing is perfect! I craft the same way you do... precision and neatness! I know some people like messy sewing and stray threads hanging but I hate that personally.
If I make a mistake I generally fix it in the same way you do...but if it's a special gift for someone or something I'm making for my home and it doesn't look good enough imo, I will get upset at myself and throw it away! When I'm that invested in that special item, fixing it isn't an option because my brain still knows it's there! Then every time I look at it, it makes me depressed because I feel so disappointed and sloppy in my work, so then the whole thing is ruined in my mind. I may not throw it out that very minute, I may walk away from it, sleep on it, and look at it again the next day when I'm not upset at myself. Sometimes a fresh mind makes you realise it's not nearly as bad as it looked the night before through annoyed eyes! But if it still looks shite, in the bin it goes! No hesitation!
I have enough stress and depression in my life as it is, I don't need items in every room taunting me with proof of my failure! I'm already trying to rebuild my self confidence after splitting up with my husband, following long term emotional abuse. I'm at home 95% of the time due to illness and disabilities anyway, so I have to get rid of anything around me with negative emotions or memories associated with it or I'll never feel like I have any worth. I want to feel proud when I look at something I've made, so every time it catches my eye it reminds me of doing an excellent job and that I do have valuable skills and creative talent.
The lightbulb moment for me in this video, was the hair straighteners! I was like, ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy goddddddd!!! 😲😲😲 I literally got a new hair dryer and straighteners at Christmas, and have a spare pair of straighteners that I thought about either putting on Facebook marketplace or donating to charity!
Now they're going straight in my craft cupboard instead! I'll put them with my heat tool and pyrography pen etc. They'll fit in that box perfectly!!!
I bet you could use them on coffee dyed paper too, that's too wrinkly, or offcuts of paper that got bent up amongst the stash from rummaging through the scrap box!
Amazing tip! I love discovering something new like that!
I have a tip in return... Well a couple of tips around one subject actually: The gluing of card to fabric.
1) a) you can buy that stuff like interfacing, that's double sided, if you sandwiched that between the two and ironed the fabric, it would be stuck on tight and super smooth!
b) You can even buy that wonder web stuff on a roll, used for hemming things, that's basically the same thing but on a thin roll. They sell that in our Poundland, and no doubt in most cheap shops that are similar!
2) a) gelli plate! Get your gellie plate and brayer and pour on your glue! The reason your glue is still seeping even though you smoothed it out, is because it hits the card in a squiggle pattern from the bottle, which is sitting on the surface for a minute or two longer than the final smeared bit, so it's soggier. The card beneath the squiggle pattern has absorbed more glue by then, so even though the GLUE surface is smooth on the top, the underside of the glue is slightly deeper in places where it's had time to soak in. If you apply the glue smoothly all over at once, that won't happen.
b) If you don't have a gellie plate and brayer, use a decorating paint roller and plastic tub. I don't mean a giant wall paint roller, but one of the smaller fluffy ones for getting behind radiators. I use one and it's only 4" across and about as thick as a broom handle, so pretty small. I got mine from Poundland, and it came with spare roller sleeves, the handle, and a mini shallow paint tray!
c) Failing that, a bowl of glue and a generous sized brush! Brush it all over, and don't rush. Work it back and forth all over repeatedly so the surface is evenly saturated.
3. Fraying or thinner fabrics. If you're worried about glue seepage on thinner fabrics, coming through in spots here and there, then make seepage part of the intention! Roller your glue back and forth on your fabric INSTEAD OF the card! That way the whole surface will automatically be evenly seeped. Obviously glue dries clear so you can't SEE it in that sense, but you can see the texture change of the fabric, where glue seepage has dried. So purposely roll the glue on the fabric instead, so the whole thing has that texture when dried. Works great for fabrics that fray easily too, as the glue, when dry, holds the fibres together when you trim round the edge so it won't fray. But of course, you'd have to let it dry before sewing as it will be a lot wetter than if you were gluing the card.
Hope those tips help someone! 😘😘😘
Awesome tips, thank you!!
OMG! what a wonderful video! I am guilty of trying a cloth cover over a bubble envelope only for it to seep through. I am using it to store my ephemera but I love your idea of adding a pencil holder!!! I didn't throw it away because I like the way the fabric shredded on the sides....silly but true. Thanks for your truly inspirational video. I would give you a thousand thumbs up if I could but a big thank you will have to suffice.
You can fix it by painting some glue + water 50/50 on the surface of the fabric. Then the whole texture will match those seeped areas once dry! You can't take them away, but you can make the rest of the fabric match, right? 😁
Or you could also just put glitter, a sequin or some equally tiny embellishment here and there to cover up the spots. 😘😘😘
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 Thanks for a great idea!!!! and soooooo glad I didn't chuck it in the garbage!! I was so upset with myself that I didn't give it much thought....thanks again
@@craftygrandma56 why do we even craft!!! Grrrrr! 😡
Sometimes I ask myself that, when it's all going wrong and nothing will do as I planned. I think, "why am I even bothering, when all I'll feel after is crap about myself!"
Yes still, we dive in for more! I'd love to be artsy, free flowing, organic in the way I craft, but my brain doesn't work that way!
My brain spots imperfections, from 200 metres away, wearing a blindfold....at night! 😲
I'm very particular about the way I do things, very fussy and demand the best from myself.
I've totally thrown things away, and cut them up beforehand so I'm not tempted to dig them back out the bin.
We must be gluttons for punishment. 😂😂😂
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 LOL!! yes we all have the urge to be perfect but perfection is not possible. Perhaps we are conditioned to do so because of our background or parents. I, for one, was taught to sew perfectly by my mom who was a seamstress (it would look a bit odd with one sleeve shorter than the other!!) ; I was a legal secretary and had to type documents on an old typewriter that you had to throw the carriage return....typing had to be perfect because there were 5 carbons underneath and erasing or later on white-out was simply not permitted. I worked in a law firm where the manager checked to make sure your stocking had no runs; your clothes were pressed and god forbid your pale nailpolish was applied perfectly!!! (those were the 70's!!) Your hair had to look like you just walked out of a salon!! With a 6 year old and a 2 year old, it wasn't easy! So now that I am retired, yes I like my house to be neat but I have overcome the idea that it has to be picture perfect - I rather have it look comfy and inviting. I only started doing crafts 12 years ago after retiring and had no stupid male art teacher to give me a big 0 because it wasn't to his liking!!! So we used to try to live a perfect life but alas! there is no such thing as perfection because what is perfect to me, is not to you! so cut yourself some slack and give yourself permission not to be so perfect when things go wrong!
I just love these styles!! A feast for my eyes!!💜🧵🔶🌿🌼🧶📎📔📿
The covers are beauiful. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and talents. I will be trying some of these.
These are so beautiful! I used to consider issues like glue seepage failures. Now I also like the challenge of dealing with it.
Thank you for an awesome video!
❤️ Shirley
I don’t know how I missed this video! I simply love 💕 💕 these simple covers. So EXCITING!
Yay! Thank you!